My recollection is this: I called Landon Donovan the day before the 2001 MLS Cup final and talked to him for 10 or 15 minutes. Yes. The day before. Called him on his cell, and he picked up, and I wrote a story based on what we talked about on the eve of the game. […]

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Each fall, an organization known as Futbol de Primera polls journalists to determine the best U.S. national team player of that calendar year. (For years, they gave away a Honda automobile to the winner; that no longer appears to be the case.) The Futbol de Primera (formerly Honda) award is better than the U.S. Soccer […]

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By signing Robbie Keane, captain of Ireland’s national team, the Galaxy have made the biggest news in Major League Soccer since Thierry Henry went to New York to play for Red Bull. Granted, Robbie Keane may be close to washed up, but when a guy spends most of a decade in the Premier League, and […]

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No, this is not about the soccer club. When reviewing, a few weeks back, the interesting assumptions Isaac Asimov made in his “Foundation” series — set 30,000 years-plus in the future — I neglected to mention a fairly major assumption that he made. To wit: Humans are the only form of intelligent life in Asimov’s […]

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I’m not sure the importance of the Concacaf Champions League has been fully grasped by soccer fans in the United States. This is a big deal, and the fact that Real Salt Lake of Major League Soccer has a good chance of winning the competition tonight is something they ought to be paying attention to. […]

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I am still on the Los Angeles Galaxy’s media list, so I get this stuff sent to me, and this item came a week ago, and I have intended to mention it ever since. It’s about a 16-year-old forward the Galaxy has signed. And this most certainly is premature, but could this Jack McBean kid […]

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Funny. I’ve been exposed to so much soccer in the past three years, I might actually go to Galaxy games as a fan, now. Though I would rather get paid to cover them, of course. Anyway, the club recently has been making news pretty much all over the spectrum involving some names well-known in the […]

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Received an e-mail from the Los Angeles Galaxy today about roster moves the club has made. “LA Galaxy Acquire the Rights to Juan Pablo Angel and Frankie Hejduk” I know Juan Pablo Angel, a goalscoring machine, is supposed to be the big news here. Which is why he was listed first. But what I am […]

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David Beckham has had rather a rough go of it in Los Angeles. He has been hurt, he has gone off to play chunks of years in Europe, he has been rather knocked around in the book “The Beckham Experiment” (the Landon Donovan comments). And then he suffered a ruptured Achilles’ tendon that took him […]

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Interesting concept. Landon Donovan returning to Redlands for an episode of an ESPN series entitled “Homecoming with Rick Reilly.” Turns out you don’t just go home … you go home with Rick Reilly, the former Sports Illustrated columnist who is now the “other guy” columnist at espn.com. The other guy to Bill Simmons, that is. […]

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